Antoine Roger Lokongo

The latest success story about Ebola coming out of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is that the DRC has completely eradicated the Ebola epidemic which broke out in the Djera region by relying only on the experience of its own medical practioners (79 people died).

The 2014 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ two-day summit hosted by China, took place against the backdrop of the spread of the Ebola epidemic, which has devastated a number of West African countries.

The fact that western powers have a well-drawn plan to recolonize and reoccupy Africa’s rich land, soil and subsoil by killing Africans, the original owners of the land, this time using fellow Africans to kill fellow Africans and employing bio-warfare against African people (Ebola), in order to c

In my masters thesis at City University, London, titled: ‘NGOs and the Media: Friends or Enemies?

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame had hoped that the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, the genocide committed by the Israeli army against Palestinian people, the “Boko Haram” crimes against humanity, the killing of Black people in Ferguson in the United States

Brahim Senouci recently wrote a piece in his blog which well depicted an Africa at the crossroads. According to Senouci, ‘of course, slavery and forced conversions to Islam and Christianity have disappeared in Africa.

As I started writing this piece on the sacred day of 30 June 2014, the 54th anniversary of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s independence, Patrice Lumunba’s Independence Day speech constantly filled my mind, especially when he said: ‘We are going to make of Congo the center of the sun’s radiance

It is a privilege for me to be invited by Pambazuka News to gaze into my crystal ball and write a piece about what I realistically see and share my thoughts about where Africa is heading in the next 50 years.

Fifty years ago, China’s first Premier Zhou Enlai paid his first visit to Africa. Now, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is paying official visits to Ethiopia, Nigeria, Angola and Kenya.

To paraphrase a biblical passage, I would like to start this piece by writing that “for Congo’s sake I will not keep silent, for Kinshasa’s sake I will not remain quiet, till the Democratic Republic of Congo’s vindication shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch”.